The Effect of Managers’ Good Character on the Employees’ Occupational Stress in Social Security Organization in Esfahan, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of good character of the managers on occupational stress of the employees in social security organization of Esfahan province. The statistical society of the research includes all employees of the social security organization of Esfahan province that according to this the sample size was determined 150 persons as the statistical society. In order to collect the information, the researcher-made questionnaire was used. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, face validity method was accomplished by using of the professors opinions of the management group of Esfahan University and some experts of the social security of Esfahan province. To determine the reliability of the questionnaire, Koroonbakh Alfa coefficient was used which was calculated 87 percent for the questionnaire of good character of the managers and it was estimated 90 percent for the questionnaire of organizational stress. In order to assess the research hypotheses, Pearson correlation test with SPSS18 software and to analyze the data, Amos18 software were used. The results of the hypotheses test showed that good character of the managers of the social security organization has meaningful effect on occupational stress of the employees.